From the Contents of Esoteric Classes

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EL, Hamburg, 2-11-'07

Most people don't know much more about the word Logos than that it
consists of five letters. What they say about these high beings, the
three Logoi is often just dilettantish talk. A comprehensive,
preparatory understanding is necessary to look into the world of the
three Logoi. But men often think that they can understand the very
highest things right away. “In the beginning was the Logos, and
the Logos was with God, and the Logos was a God. Everything was made
by the same, and without it nothing that was made came into
being.” If we let this opening of John's Gospel reverberate in
our soul, we get an inkling that something very high is being referred
to.

How is the present sun related to the Sun condition that preceded the
Moon condition? An advancement has taken place. The present fixed-star
sun was previously the planet Sun. The best forces and beings
separated from the planet sun, and those that were less highly
developed went on with the Moon and then with our earth. Every planet
eventually becomes a fixed star.

Our earth is an ensouled being with lower and higher beings on it.
When a planet develops into a fixed star the beings who are embodied
on it also go higher. The best forces and beings of old Sun became the
fixed-star sun. When our earth has gone through the Jupiter condition,
and as Venus is almost a sun, the human being will be similar to the
sublime beings who now live on the sun. And then what does a sun
become? When a sun has attained maturity a zodiac forms. Zodiacs also
arise and perish. Even more mighty and sublime beings work down from a
zodiac than from a sun. The sun that shines down on us now will
someday shine down as the stars of a new zodiac. The spirit beings of
this new zodiac will be creative souls, creative beings at the highest
stage of development. If we look at human development we also see
organs that are standing at the end of their development and are
withering, and others like the heart will be a voluntary muscle in
future, and the larynx will creatively speak out human descendents
with the word. This will begin when the earth planet becomes a fixed
star and then a zodiac. Beings who went through worlds before the
earth was Saturn sounded down the creative word when the earth was at
the beginning of its evolution. “In the beginning was the
word” should be taken quite literally. At the end of evolution
man will be a being who creates through the word. He arose from a
creative Logos and he'll later be a creative logos himself.

The creative word is the third Logos of the Trinity. He's the world
sound that resounds through the world. A higher, more sublime power is
the creative light. Man will also be a shining light later. Warmth
that's raised to a higher level becomes light. In the future man won't
just be sound — he'll become a radiant, shining being that is
light. The creative light is creative for our world as the second
Logos. The world aroma goes through the cosmos as the highest
revelation; it's a higher principle of creation than world sound and
world light. World sound is the third Logos, world light is the second
Logos and the universe's aroma is the first, most creative and highest
Logos. In folk sagas we have the opposite, bad aroma of the devil,
that indicates that he's the destructive being of the world. In
occultism one calls the eternal part of man that goes through all
evolutions his personal, spirit aroma.